My Traitor's Heart
Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself
$40.89
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2015
Summary
THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
A great masterpiece of South African writing - Rian Malan’s gripping and harrowing exploration of South Africa’s apartheid.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
In ‘70s’ South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand the horrors wrought by apartheid- the poverty, injustice and viol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099583462 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099583461 |
| Author: | Rian Malan |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 35mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Rian Malan has written a tragic masterpiece and a classic of our time
Rian Malan has written a tragic masterpiece and a classic of our time * Time Out *
My Traitor’s Heart is a tremendous book about candour, honour and race, a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage. No one who reads it could ever forget it * Michael Herr *
A tortured, mesmerising attempt to capture exactly the conflicts of [Malan’s] upbringing, conflicts that went to the soul of the emerging nation. * Guardian *
The remorseless exercise of a reporter’s anguished conscience gives us a South Africa we thought we knew all about: but we knew nothing – John Le Carre
A great swirling devil of a book and it is equal in every way to its vast subject - the black and white country of the heart – Don DeLillo
A magnificent book, an explosion of truth-telling * Times Literary Supplement *
Unusual, vivid, raw and revealing – Donald Woods * Sunday Times *
Many books are called “searing”. This one really is. Rian Malan, a journalist of solid Afrikaner stock, explores deeper into the darkness of late apartheid South Africa than any other writer * Economist *
About The Author
Rian Malan
Rian Malan was born in South Africa in 1954. His first book, My Traitor’s Heart, was a bestseller. He has worked extensively as a journalist in South Africa and in the United States. He has since returned to Johannesburg to live.
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